Thank you skidpan for your advice ,but I am still a bit confused whether the belt needs changing or not.
So far I have stuck to the makers schedule i,e. change the belt every 30000 miles or 5years,now it appears it is 100000 miles or 10 years.
The belt does not need changing if you want to stay with Fords schedule which is 100,000 miles or 10 years.
If you want to go ahead and change it by all means do so, will do no harm other than to your wallet and free time since you do it yourself
No idea where you have read 30,000 miles or 5 years. I had one of these engines in a 1999 Ford Puma and it was clearly 100,000 miles or 10 years in the book.
Also there are 2 types of water pump fitted to this engine, one has 3 pulley fixing holes,the other has four holes.
There may be 2 types of waterpump but that does not change to logic of replacing it while doing the cambelt.
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